Gay Lesbian category: 1095 books
by Marc Stein
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement provides a new narrative history of U.S. gay and lesbian activism, drawing on primary research in the field and the best scholarship on the history of the gay and lesbian movement.
Focusing on four decades of social, cultural, and political change in...
Radical Relations
Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
In Radical Relations, Daniel Winunwe Rivers offers a previously untold story of the American family: the first history of lesbian and gay parents and their children in the United States. Beginning in the postwar era, a period marked by both intense repression and dynamic change for lesbians and gay...
Gay and Lesbian, Then and Now
Australian Stories from a Social Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
‘These are our stories. All of us live in them.’ —Anton Enus, SBS News
This is the story of a peaceful revolution.
Drawing on in-depth interviews, it tells the intimate life stories of thirteen gay and lesbian Australians, ranging in age from twenties to eighties.
From the...
by Rita J. Simon, Alison M. Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
Gay and Lesbian Communities the World Over examines the treatment and status of gays and lesbians in 21 countries around the world. The countries included are Canada, the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Israel, Egypt, Iran,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The revised edition of The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage is a reader's companion to this impressive body of work. It provides overviews of gay and lesbian presence in a variety of literatures and historical periods; in-depth critical essays on major gay and lesbian authors in world literature;...
by Lyn Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
**Winner of the 2015 National Indie Excellence Awards in LGBT Fiction**
**Finalist in the 2015 International Book Awards for Fiction: Gay & Lesbian**
**Winner of the Silver Medal in the 2014 Global Ebook Awards in Gay / Lesbian / LGBT Fiction**
**Winner of the Silver Medal...
Circulating Queerness
Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
A new history of the queer novel shows its role in constructing gay and lesbian lives
The gay and lesbian novel has long been a distinct literary genre with its own awards, shelving categories, bookstore spaces, and book reviews. But very little has been said about the remarkable history of...
Dear Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, And Transgender Teacher
Letters Of Advice To Help You Find Your Way
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Dear Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, And Transgender Teacher: Letters Of Advice To Help You Find Your Way is full of the voices of queer educators and calls for educational leaders to be allies in their social justice leadership roles. Queer professionals write personal letters to junior queer colleagues answering...
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay
Personal Essays, Public Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2000
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay is the intellectual autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. Chronicling the development of her ideas from the excitement of early feminism in the 1960s to friendly critiques of queer theory in the 1990s, this collection...
Foundlings
Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2001
What is it like to “feel historical”? In Foundlings Christopher Nealon analyzes texts produced by American gay men and lesbians in the first half of the twentieth century—poems by Hart Crane, novels by Willa Cather, gay male physique magazines, and lesbian pulp fiction. Nealon brings these diverse...
The Queer Renaissance
Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots ushered in the contemporary gay liberation movement, overt representations of same-sex desire in American literature and the arts were few and far between. Even in the 1970s, when gay and lesbian cultures began to register on our national consciousness, such work was...
Up from Invisibility
Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2001
A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the mass...
So Famous and So Gay
The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) and Truman Capote (1924–1984) should not have been famous. They made their names between the Oscar Wilde trial and Stonewall, when homosexuality meant criminality and perversion. And yet both Stein and Capote, openly and exclusively gay, built their outsize reputations...
by Michigan State University School of Journalism, David Gushee, Susan Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
This clear, introductory guide answers 100 of the basic questions people ask about people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or who have other sexual orientations. The questions come from interviews with gay people who say these are issues they frequently get asked about or wish people knew more about....